just when we avoid one cliff, they threw united states off another cliff, the hurricane cliff. we have to come together because there is widespread bipartisan support for this bill. it's there, just a matter of getting the vote. >> if you just look at the way the house bill passed for the cliff and you just do the math, the democrats really like this bill a lot more than the republicans. does that mean that you really got the best of the republicans this time around, congressman? can we read it that way? >> i'm not sure that the democrats like this bill more than republicans. i do believe democrats injected some prag matism and compromise and solutions into this. allowing us to fall over this cliff as a result of partisanship wasn't an option. i voted for this bill. there was plenty i didn't like. i wished we received more deficit reduction. i wasn't going to allow my own immediacy concerns to push us off the cliff. something i do like good for new yorkers or other high cost of living areas. that is the increased thresholds on the income tax piece. i've been preaching two years